- “I’m just a wreck!” -Owen, discombobulated, trying to get on his boots/coat/scarf/hat/mittens.
- “Mommy, we are so mad at you! Mommy, we will TAKE OFF! Mommy, we will run away from you SO FAST!” -Kyle, speaking on behalf of both brothers, shouting out at me from the laundry room where they were reluctantly getting their shoes on after I told them, firmly, that they could not go outside without shoes.
- “You’re killing me!” -Owen, laughing hysterically at Braydon’s antics.
- “It is a sunset. The sun is going down, down, down. The sun is landing!!! Wait a minute, where is the runway???” -Kyle, watching the sunset.
- “But I am a person! I am not a kid! I am not a child! I am not a baby! I am a PERSON!!!” -Owen, when I wouldn’t buy him a Ghirardelli chocolate in the check-out line at a store.
- “If I grow up, then I will be a grown up. I slept so well. See? I growed up from sleeping so well. Now, feel my muscle!” -Kyle
- “I’m not angry at you Mommy, I’m just mad at you.” -Owen
- “If I throwed up, then can I get some soda???” -Kyle
- “I’m so great! Right?” -Owen
- “But we are growing up. We are getting to be grown-ups.” -Kyle, holding back from petting a random lady’s dog because she told him that her dog ‘really likes kids.’